Politics has never been more unpredictable, more alarming or more interesting. 

David Runcimann, who used to host the podcast Taking Politics (which had 30 million downloads), and now hosts Past Present Future, a UK-based podcast that tries to make sense of it all. 

Twice every week, David Runcimann – Professor of Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge – talks to the most interesting people around, about the history of ideas – from politics to philosophy and science to fiction. What does the future hold? Can democracy survive? How crazy will it get? 

In this session, you can hear David Runcimann’s analysis of the vulnerability of democracy and get an idea of what role the old media can play in a landscape dominated by tech giants and artificial intelligence. 

David Runcimann’s research focus on late-nineteenth and twentieth-century political thought, theories of the state and of political representation and various aspects of contemporary political philosophy and politics.